moil /ˈmɔɪ(ə)l/
(vi.)辛勞工作,忙碌工作,不斷動搖辛苦,勞苦,費勁
Moil v. t. [imp. & p. p. Moiled p. pr. & vb. n. Moiling.] To daub; to make dirty; to soil; to defile.
Thou . . . doest thy mind in dirty pleasures moil. --Spenser.
Moil, v. i. To soil one's self with severe labor; to work with painful effort; to labor; to toil; to drudge.
Moil not too much under ground. --Bacon.
Now he must moil and drudge for one he loathes. --Dryden.
Moil, n. A spot; a defilement.
The moil of death upon them. --Mrs. Browning.
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moil
v 1: work hard; "She was digging away at her math homework";
"Lexicographers drudge all day long" [syn: labor, labour,
toil, fag, travail, grind, drudge, dig]
2: be agitated; "the sea was churning in the storm" [syn: churn,
boil, roil]
3: moisten or soil; "Her tears moiled the letter"